The left-wing elections group founded by Democrat darling Stacey Abrams is laying off a large percentage of its staff due to financial problems stemming from its ineffective lawsuits against election integrity laws and activists.
On Tuesday, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Fair Fight Action is axing 75 percent of its staff as part of an internal “restructuring” as the group grapples with ongoing debt issues. Despite raising more than $100 million from 2018-2021, Fair Fight is now $2.5 million in debt, with “only $1.9 million in cash in the bank.” The group was once considered “a fund-raising powerhouse for Democrats,” according to The New York Times.
In addition to inadequate fundraising, Salena Jegede, Fair Fight’s board chair, attributed the organization’s ongoing financial struggles to “rising litigation costs.” In recent years, Fair Fight has launched several frivolous lawsuits against Georgia’s voting procedures and election integrity activists who attempted to bring transparency to the state’s electoral system. Much like its founder’s 2018 and 2022 gubernatorial campaigns, these efforts have ended in failure.
In September 2022, an Obama-appointed federal judge struck down a suit brought by Fair Fight against Georgia over the state’s elections process. The group claimed there were “serious and unconstitutional flaws” in Georgia election law relating to, as Breitbart summarized, “absentee ballots, voter registration, and voter list management.” More specifically, Fair Fight baselessly asserted some of these voting practices suppressed racial minorities’ ability to vote.
Judge Steve Jones, however, ruled that “the challenged practices violate neither the
